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If Reggaeton is going to make a dent in the US...

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TonySantiago

Granted, I don't like reggaeton, we don't have a forum on reggaeton, but I have to say this after listening to La Kalle in New York one day.

If this music intends to go mainstream and get to the U.S., two things has to happen....

1) Artists would have to produce more English tracks. There is a segment of second generation, young latinos that don't know Spanish as well as those who aren't Latino that like the music but have no idea what the artists are singing about.

2) CREATE ANOTHER BEAT TO IT! For the most part the majority of the songs I've heard on La Kalle have that same repetitive beat going on! I forgot who did that track "Rock Ya Body Mic Check 1,2" but that was a different beat albeit NOT a reggaeton song, yet that beat could work with reggaeton.

Just thoughts.

TS
 
As a club dj, I must say that Reggaeton is making a dent and is spreading. A dj friend of mine from Toronto just called me up asking to send him reggaeton tracks cause the requests there for it are going up... and he doesnt dj for a latin crowd.

As for the beats - yes, they all do use the same kick and snare but hey, didnt Freestyle overuse Planet Rock? Im sure they'll start venturing out to different sounds. The melodies of reggaeton are catchy.

I dont understand spanish but sometimes I spin about 50-70 songs a night. It just makes the dancefloor go nuts. Its working better for me than hip hop these days. People are tired of the usual everyday hip hop Lil Jon tracks to party to, plus hip hop hasnt had an Usher 'Yeah' or a Beyonce 'Crazy in Love' anthem this year.
 
> As a club dj, I must say that Reggaeton is making a dent and
> is spreading. A dj friend of mine from Toronto just called
> me up asking to send him reggaeton tracks cause the requests
> there for it are going up... and he doesnt dj for a latin
> crowd.
>
> As for the beats - yes, they all do use the same kick and
> snare but hey, didnt Freestyle overuse Planet Rock? Im sure
> they'll start venturing out to different sounds. The
> melodies of reggaeton are catchy.
>
> I dont understand spanish but sometimes I spin about 50-70
> songs a night. It just makes the dancefloor go nuts. Its
> working better for me than hip hop these days. People are
> tired of the usual everyday hip hop Lil Jon tracks to party
> to, plus hip hop hasnt had an Usher 'Yeah' or a Beyonce
> 'Crazy in Love' anthem this year.
>
yeah all freestyle sounds the same and saying that it has the same beat is like saying that every rock song sounds the same because of the drums.
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> > As a club dj, I must say that Reggaeton is making a dent
> and
> > is spreading. A dj friend of mine from Toronto just called
>
> > me up asking to send him reggaeton tracks cause the
> requests
> > there for it are going up... and he doesnt dj for a latin
> > crowd.
> >
> > As for the beats - yes, they all do use the same kick and
> > snare but hey, didnt Freestyle overuse Planet Rock? Im
> sure
> > they'll start venturing out to different sounds. The
> > melodies of reggaeton are catchy.
> >
> > I dont understand spanish but sometimes I spin about 50-70
>
> > songs a night. It just makes the dancefloor go nuts. Its
> > working better for me than hip hop these days. People are
> > tired of the usual everyday hip hop Lil Jon tracks to
> party
> > to, plus hip hop hasnt had an Usher 'Yeah' or a Beyonce
> > 'Crazy in Love' anthem this year.
> >
> yeah all freestyle sounds the same and saying that it has
> the same beat is like saying that every rock song sounds the
> same because of the drums.
> Not everyone cares about the language. mostly older people
> don't listen to a differnt language, but most young people
> don't matter
>

Well, probably in the urban areas, no one would care about the language. We know reggaeton does well in the big cities with the Latino populations such as NYC, Miami, etc. I'm just thinking way ahead to see if reggaeton could work in, let's say...an Albany, Virginia Beach, Columbus, OH, heck..Wichita! LOL with the beats but perhaps with the songs in English. And if it can work with no one caring about the language...great!

And funny the freestyle sound comes up. Yeah it did sound the same for the most part...but then you had different variations, the beats on Lissette Melendez' "Together Forever", the mature sound of Corina in "Temptation" and those songs worked. It's something I would like to see reggaeton attempt to do...and I used the "Roc Ya Body" track because it HAS that feel of a reggaeton track but sped up a notch.

TS
 
Tony,

Reggaeton is working in Toronto, a city that doesn't have a "Hispanic" population. If the music is produced properly, it has cross culture appeal. I think Gasolina is a jam, and I don't speak Spanish. But I liked Despina Vandi, and I don't speak Greek.

Our society is changing. I know that NYC, Chicago and definately Toronto are multicultural. While Top 40 radio continues to program on that dated "White Suburban Pepsi" mentality, the reality of the world is different.

This is where radio doesn't get it. Top 40 is white (or plays white urban music), Urban is all black, Hurban is Hispanic. Yet the world I see around me is very different. Inter-racial dating (god that term is dated), people enjoying food & style from other cultures. Etc.

These are the kids of the first wave of immigrants. Walking downtown last week, I saw a woman dressed in full "Arab" garb. Face covered, headdress on, and a pair of Nike Air runners undernearth the dress. She was wearing an iPod too, it was hanging around her neck.

The future of CHR is going to have to be Multicultural CHR. And what is that? Well, its like going for Greek Food that's been modified to be North American. The Chow Mein of Chinese Food (Chow mein is from San Fran). Its Despina Vandi, it's Panjabi MC with JZ. It's Gasolina. Its Boza. It's the sounds of the world incorporated with American dance music. Its' what dance music was 10 years ago.

We're all dating each other. We're all eating each others food. Hell, even straight men proudly declare themselves Metrosexuals now. But radio doesn't get that. It's still locked in the past thinking that white folk like Kelly Clarkson and Black Folk like DMX.

And that makes radio sound very dated.
 
If? Where have you been for the past year?

Language doesn't matter. Reggae has made major strides and they aren't much easier to understand that reggaeton artists. And reggae cats are speaking English?

As the music becomes larger, generates more revenue, the music will change. It will expand. For better.....

Or worse.
 
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